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We had Pizza Week, and Burger Week, and now it’s time to put the Sandwich in the spotlight! It’s Portland Sandwich Week. There are over 30 restaurants participating this go-round. Here’s how it works: Each restaurant comes up with a special sandwich, and they’re only 8$. The idea is to get people to try new places. It’s not just Portland. Beaverton, Tigard, and Lake Oswego all have sandwich shops participating.

Portland police say they have no reason to believe the six unsolved deaths are related, but there are similarities in the cases that experts say raise concern.

HILLSBORO Ore. (KPTV) - A hay truck on fire near Hillsboro was blocking all lanes on Highway 26 near Hillsboro on Monday afternoon. The truck was in the westbound lanes close to the Jackson School Road exit. By 5:42 p.m. crews had extinguished the flames enough that the eastbound lanes...

Dozens of car owners have spent nearly three weeks without their vehicles, after being caught in the middle of the bankruptcy and eviction of a tire repair shop at the Washington Square Mall.

In a car accident on Sunday, June 04, night in Vancouver, one person was killed, and another was critically hurt. At around 9 o’clock, police were called to the collision scene in the 3000 block of Columbia Way. The driver and passenger of a speeding car were thrown from the vehicle and killed when it collided with a tree, according to the police.

The City Council is expected to pass Mayor Ted Wheeler’s proposed restrictions on public homeless camping on Wednesday, June 7. Four of the five council members have signaled support. Only Commissioner Carmen Rubio has not yet said how she will vote. Polls have consistently shown public support for camping restrictions. The most recent one was an unscientific online survey conducted by the Portland Tribune last week. It found 91.6% of over 500 reader respondents agree with the idea of banning sidewalk camping during the daytime,...

A woman’s body was discovered on Saturday, June 3, afternoon in Multnomah County, and the officials believe the death was the result of a homicide that was caused by domestic abuse. After receiving many calls to 911 reporting a domestic dispute just before 5:00 p.m., the Multnomah County Sheriff’s...

Residents of Portland, Oregon, have been advised to avoid one of the nation's largest rivers after roughly half a million gallons of sewage leaked into the water system, local officials said Monday afternoon. The reason for the advisory, officials said, is because there could be "increased bacteria" in the water. The issue is in the Willamette River, which according to nonprofit organization Willamette Riverkeeper is the 13th largest river by volume in the U.S. The river is also home to the nation's second-largest waterfall by volume and flows through some of the state's biggest cities, including Portland, Eugene and Salem. The mishap...

38-year-old Martin Benjamin of Portland was arrested yesterday, June 6, as police seized enough fentanyl to kill an estimated 33,500 people. Benjamin was stopped for allegedly participating in illegal drug activity. It was then they discovered 67 grams of fentanyl, as a small amount of methamphetamine and cocaine. Officials say...

Amanda Stott-Smith died Sunday in Coffee Creek Correctional Facility where she was serving a life sentence for dropping her two children off the Sellwood Bridge. Her son, age 4, drowned and her daughter, 7, survived. Stott-Smith was 45. The Oregon Department of Corrections did not explain how she died. In...

After 10 years of successful business at its lone location on Northeast Fremont Street in Portland, Pip’s Original Doughnuts & Chai announced Friday that it will soon open a second location in Beaverton.

Every day, disturbing new details emerge about Portland. The steel bridge was shut down for hours last week after two separate fires broke out in the area. Now we hear that a car was being driven so fast that it was thrown over a bridge in Portland. Yesterday, in a...

A cat from Portland is in the running for the nation's "Wacky Pet Names." One food cart was destroyed by a fire in Newberg on Monday morning. Federal trial set to begin over Oregon’s tough gun control measure approved by voters. Updated: 11 hours ago. |. A federal trial...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Charity Lynn Perry was found deceased on April 24 near Ainsworth State Park in Multnomah County. Members of her family spoke with KATU News, saying they want Perry to be remembered for her kindness and to raise awareness for the mental health challenges she faced before she died.

Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt said on June 06 that 37-year-old Matthew Leahey pled guilty to shooting at police officers during a traffic check in Northeast Portland last year. On the night of May 6, 2022, at the intersection of Northeast 78th Avenue and Northeast Mason Street, two Portland officers...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KPTV) - The 2023 James Beard Award for best new restaurant was just given to Kann in southeast Portland. Kann is the first Portland restaurant to win this award at the ceremony, which is essentially the “Oscars of the food world.” In fact, they’re only the second Portland restaurant to win a national James Beard Award.

The Oregon Department of Corrections reported the death of an adult in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility on Sunday, June 4. According to a press release, Amanda Stott-Smith, 45, died in custody the morning of June 4. A cause of death has not been announced, and will be determined by a medical examiner, according to the release. Stott-Smith had been in custody since April 23, 2010 and was serving a life sentence after intentionally dropping her two children from the Sellwood Bridge. Her daughter, who was 7 at the time, survived, but her 4-year-old son was killed. This is the third death of an adult in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility since October.

An 18-year-old was arrested after attempting to elude police and driving over 130 mph in Vancouver early Tuesday morning, authorities said.

Thousands of medical professionals at three Providence locations nearly unanimously voted to authorize a strike, the Oregon Nurses Association announced Monday.

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